Coal in the News

08Sep

Banks: Stop the Assault on Coal

Via The Roanoke Times: Ironically, as reported by the Washington Examiner newspaper, “the Democratic National Convention likely will receive much of its electricity from coal.” Coal-fired power keeps the lights on while the politicians continue their war on the miners and the industry that employs them. The U.S. coal industry is reeling. Worse, the people […]
07Sep

Point of View: Low-income Americans Pay Heavy Price for Energy Policies

Via NewsOK: The clean energy mantra is so loud that it often drowns out the feeble cry of energy poverty. Many Americans are finding it more and more difficult to pay their utility bills, yet this important issue is nearly absent from the debate about America’s energy future. Modern progressives, who have long fancied themselves […]
06Sep

Obama Kept His Promise, 83,000 Coal Jobs Lost And 400 Mines Shuttered

Via The Daily Caller: This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry. A 2015 study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012 during Obama’s first term. During Obama’s […]
06Sep

EPA, Enviros Shut Down Two Colorado Coal Plants And Put More Out Of Work

Via The Daily Caller: Two Colorado coal plants and one mine will be shut down as part of an effort by federal and state regulators and environmentalists to improve visibility at national parks and other areas of the state. Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a rural cooperative utility, will shutter its 100 megawatt Nucla Station […]
02Sep

Let’s Use More Coal, Open More Coal-fired Power Plants

Via The Livingston Daily: Our current administrations agenda to protect the environment is superseding the needs of the people. We have been burdened with overzealous regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency and this has forced many of our coal fired power plants to be shut down and ruined the majority of the industry. We have […]
01Sep

The ‘War On Coal’ Unexpectedly Hits A Washington Town Struggling To Get By

Via The Daily Caller:  LONGVIEW, Wash. — In the morning, the industrial site nestled along the Columbia River is eerily quiet. Lori Black is one of the first employees to arrive most days. She knows the site well, has worked there for 12 years. Five years ago, Millennium Bulk Terminals acquired the 540-acre site. Officials […]
31Aug

Congress Should Bar Stream Rule

Via The Wheeling News-Register: When Barack Obama became president, more than half the electricity generated in the United States came from coal-fired power plants. Coal was the most economical means of providing electricity. Now, electricity from gas costs about the same as that from coal. Only about 40 percent of the nation’s power comes from […]
31Aug

Why a Smart Energy Policy Can Include Coal

Via Power Engineering International:  A pulverized coal plant in the US is an example of how combining the right operational model with best-in-class technologies can produce affordable, reliable and secure power with the lowest possible environmental impact, write Robert Giglio and Steve Nelson Longview Power’s 770 MWe coal power plant in West Virginia Credit: Longview […]
29Aug

N.C. Policy Makers, Regulators Attack EPA’s Clean Power Plan

Via The Charlotte Business Journal: The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, requiring states to achieve 30% reductions in carbon emissions, did not get much love at the Carolinas Federal and State Policy Briefing sponsored by E4 Carolinas. Congressman Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) lamented the “bias at the EPA that you can’t trust these state regulators.” N.C. […]
29Aug

Stream Rule Frustrates Wyoming Regulators

Via The Casper Star-Tribune: Officials at the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality are frustrated by a proposed federal rule that they say could cost the state more than $1 million a year in lost revenue and $500,000 in implementation. The stream protection rule, developed by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), would […]